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Formisano

Experience is not a list of roles. It is a learning curve already travelled.

The point is not to add theory. It is to shorten the time needed to read a problem correctly, understand the consequences of a choice and build a process that will actually work.

Before sport, more than fifteen years in the luxury industry built a managerial culture grounded in positioning, brand discipline, commercial development and economic accountability. During the final six years before joining SSC Napoli, as Brand Director of a brand within the Richemont Group, responsibility included development and P&L; over that period, the brand’s revenue grew to 16 times its initial level.

That experience was preceded by an earlier but formative one: military service as an artillery officer in an operational unit. A discipline in which study, technical preparation and method are integral to command — understood as the ability to coordinate large, heterogeneous groups, assign responsibility and make decisions in demanding conditions.

Seventeen years at SSC Napoli then concentrated commercial and operating responsibility in a high-intensity environment: revenue, marketing, ticketing, sponsorship, stadium, matchday, fan relations, partnerships and organization.

In recent years, this experience has reached a new point of synthesis through assignments of particular responsibility in governance and the prevention of criminal influence in professional sport: technical consultant to Italy’s National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate and court-appointed judicial administrator of FC Crotone, a club placed under judicial administration pursuant to Article 34 of the Italian Anti-Mafia Code. In this field, first-hand knowledge of how clubs operate is combined with risk analysis, control design and the construction of business processes that make organizations more traceable, resilient and governable.

In one sense, this is a point of arrival: recognition of a capability that has often been less visible than the commercial dimension of my career, but has developed throughout it. At the same time, it has become a distinct professional asset, available to clubs, owners, advisors and institutions seeking to prevent infiltration, undue influence and organizational vulnerabilities.

From knowing the system to knowing how to protect it.

Anti-mafia assignments have transformed a capability developed over time into a distinct professional asset: identifying where a sports organization can be influenced and designing processes that materially reduce that exposure.

My work as technical consultant to the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate and as judicial administrator of FC Crotone has required the integration of sector knowledge, behavioral analysis, organizational design and control discipline. Not a theoretical compliance exercise, but the construction of methods, accountability, information flows, verification mechanisms and traceable processes capable of operating under pressure.

This path is both a professional recognition and a new starting point: a specific capability now available to sports organizations, ownership groups, institutions and professional advisors seeking to strengthen their organizational antibodies before a vulnerability becomes a judicial, reputational or business problem.

Four questions before every assignment.

Vertical expertise, read through a cross-functional lens.

Not a standardized menu of services. Eight areas where operating experience and strategic judgment can affect decisions with concrete consequences.

The contribution changes depending on who has to decide.

Experience turned into method, teaching and publishing.

CONI

Recognition for technical thought.

Co-author of Sport e comunicazione nell’era digitale, awarded in the Technical Section of the CONI Literary Competition.

Honours

Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

The conferment of the OMRI honour, an institutional recognition within a professional path developed across business, sport, education and public responsibility.

Public interventions, open to debate.

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Dialogue remains part of the work.

Speaking & Teaching

Argue the case, do not oversimplify it.

Bring real problems, cases, economics and organizational tensions into the classroom and public discussion.

Leadership

The value of dialogue before the decision.

In high-intensity environments, listening quality, stakeholder reading and understanding consequences are part of the decision itself.